The vice president took to Twitter to congratulate his brother, who easily won the solidly Republican and heavily white district in the Midwestern state. The first ever openly LGBT governor, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, a bisexual woman, won her re-election bid Tuesday as well. A 2010 study by researchers from the universities of Stanford and Chicago found that female legislators brought back $49 million more for their districts per year than male counterparts.

Texas is sending its first ever Hispanic women to congress, as Veronica Escobar snapped up Beto O'Rouke's old seat and state Sen.

Women are also harder working. The record previously belonged to Elise Stefanik who was elected to Congress at age 30 in 2014.

The Democrats may not have gotten quite the blue wave they were hoping for ー but for women in politics, Election Day was an indisputable success.

And the women elected this year are overwhelmingly Democratic.

In total, 117 women were elected during the 2018 midterm elections - 96 elected to the House, 12 to the Senate and 9 as governor - shattering records and increasing the number of women in power.

In fact, the number of Republican women in Congress, at latest count, will decline in the next session.

Overall, the number of Republican women serving in Congress next term will slightly dip, partially because some female incumbents and candidates lost.

Ocasio-Cortez was born in 1989 to a mother from Puerto Rico and a father from South Bronx, growing up in an area she described as where "your zip code determines you destiny".

Women swung far toward Democrats this year, but so did men - at least, relative to where they usually are. Women were 21 points more likely to vote for Democrats than Republicans in House races - 60 percent voted for Democrats, to 38 percent who voted for Republicans.

But within the exit polls there are a few more broad lessons about partisanship by gender in America.

"And just imagine this, it is a conservative woman to boot!" About 6 in 10 voted for the Democrat in the race, compared with 4 in 10 for the Republican candidate.

Nearly 80% of voters in a CNN exit poll said it's very or somewhat important that more women and racial minorities be elected to public office, with two-thirds of white voters agreeing. Though that swing was already in progress, Trump may have accelerated that trend.

"I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society". Among those who consider that "important", two-thirds voted for Democrats.

They have won almost a quarter of the available positions. "We see problems as opportunities in our state of Colorado".

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Whitaker added in the piece that "it is time for [Rod] Rosenstein...to order Mueller to limit the scope of his investigation". In this July 13, 2018 photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks in Portland, Maine.

A pair of districts in the Midwest will add Muslim women to the ranks of the US Congress for the first time, CNN has projected. House races. "But really I am not going from a first to another first", Omar said in an interview with The Associated Press .

Democrats are gaining ground in their fight for control of the House, picking up key seats in Florida, Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Anxious Republicans privately expressed confidence in their narrow Senate majority but feared the House was slipping away.

The developer plans for nine regions to compete through three phases during 2019, with two third-party run global competitions. Featuring universal rules and point scoring, teams of four will battle it out across Miramar and Erangel in first-person mode.

She will temporarily step down as chair of Tesla's audit committee until she leaves Telstra, the company said. Tesla has named an Australian executive as its new chairman after Elon Musk was forced to give up the role.

Three states could elect their first African-American governors, while several others were running LGBT candidates and Muslims. In Florida, six House seats are in play, and there are close and crucial battles for a Senate seat and the governorship.

He rushed for 1,291 yards with nine touchdowns over 15 games in 2017 with the Steelers, his fifth year in Pittsburgh. Le'Veon Bell has still not reported to the Steelers to sign his franchise tender for the 2018 season.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's surprise victory in the June congressional primary in NY shook up Washington and the Democratic Party. Davids ran on a very solidly democratic platform focused on pushing back on Trump, gun control, and expanding health care.

In a second Trump supporter's house Borat says there isn't a problem being a racist. 'I am a racist, it is nice'. She then proceeded to call Trump a "humanitarian" to which Borat agreed and gave her a high-five.

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